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Haryana SGPC after next Assembly session: Surjewala
Sangrur, June 12
Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, Transport Minister, Haryana, yesterday said the Haryana Government would table a bill in the next session of Haryana Assembly to form a separate SGPC for the Sikhs of Haryana.
Flutter at Bhindranwale’s death anniversary
Chowk Mehta, June 12
There was a flutter at the function held here to commemorate the death anniversary of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale when Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, President of the Akali Dal (Amritsar) today alleged that the Intelligence Bureau had made deep inroads into the Damdami Taksal after Operation
Bluestar.
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| Baba Harnam Singh Dhumma (extreme right), who was formally installed successor of Sant Bhindranwale at Chowk Mehta on Sunday. The death anniversary of Bhindranwale was observed for the first time at the headquarters of Damdami Taksal.
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Shrub burning dehydrates trees along highways
Kartarpur (Jalandhar), June 12
Hundreds of trees of the Forest Department planted all along the highways connecting Jalandhar with Amritsar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala are facing death due to dehydration caused by burning of the wild shrubs growing in their shades.
Trees on the Jalandhar-Amritsar National Highway No. 1 face death due to dehydration as shrubs growing beneath them are being set on fire near Kartarpur in Jalandhar on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Status report sought on luxury resort
Chandigarh, June 12
A luxury resort being developed on ecologically fragile land in the lower Shivalik Hills near Basali village, Ropar, has caught the attention of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests.
CPI, CPM flay Amarinder govt
Rajpura, June 12
Coming down heavily on the Congress government in the state against its privatisation policies, the CPI and the CPM today organised a rally here today.
Supporters of the CPI and the CPM attend a rally in Rajpura on Sunday. —
Photo by J.S. Virdi
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BSP demands quota for Sainis
Ropar, June 12
The national general secretary of the BSP, Mr Narender Kashyap, today demanded reservation for the Saini community in Punjab on the basis of the Mandal Commission while addressing first state-level “Saini Sammelan” held in the Ambedkar Bhavan here this afternoon.
Man sets own house on fire
Rajpura, June 12
In a bizarre incident, the owner of a house reportedly set his house on fire in the densely populated Focal Point area this morning.
Sources claimed that the house owner, Rajinder Kumar, under the influence of
drugs, set his two-room house, adjacent to a gurdwara, on fire after he had
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The
house that was set on fire by its owner near a gurdwara in Focal
Point, Rajpura, on Sunday.
— Photo by J.S. Virdi |
Punjab may have healthcare city
Chandigarh, June 12
Buoyed by reports that healthcare tourism could be the next big thing, the Punjab Government is considering the setting up of a healthcare city in the state.
While the plan is still to be given concrete shape, informed sources say the
government will seek private-sector participation in developing a state-of-art
city, where quality healthcare will be made available at reasonable charges.
Herbal park a success
Hoshiarpur, June 12
Herbal Garden, recently established by the Integrated Watershed Development Project (Hills II) at
Satial, has become a centre of attraction not only for students but also for those persons who are interested in ayurvedic medicines.
No pesticides found in blood samples: docs
Chandigarh, June 12
While samples analysed by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment found a “cocktail of pesticides in human blood”, doctors working in the Forensic Laboratory at Patiala in a study conducted on samples of human blood and urine obtained from different sources found “nothing” alarming.
Banks
to disburse Rs 870 cr loans
Mohali, June 12
Banks in Ropar will disburse over
Rs 870 crore loans in various categories during the 2005-2006
financial year. Announcing this, the Ropar Deputy Commissioner, Mr
H.I.S. Grewal, stated that the agriculture and allied sector in the
district would get the largest share out of this.
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Baba vacates Rs 4-cr land of trust
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Jalandhar, June 12
Prime city land worth over Rs 4 crore which was under the illegal possession of a religious figure of the city for over 15 years, was got vacated by the Jalandhar Improvement Trust under an amicable settlement with the baba today.
The Chairman of the Improvement Trust, Mr Tejinder Singh Bittu, and the Minister of Local Bodies, Choudhry Jagjit Singh, are jubilant after the trust reclaims its land which had been occupied illegally by a baba in Jalandhar on Sunday.
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Commissioner asks officials to assess loss by squall
Ferozepore, June 12
The Commissioner of Ferozepore and Faridkot Division, Mr. K S Sidhu, today instructed the Deputy-Commissioners of all the district of the Malwa belt to assess the loss and damage incurred by the high velocity storm which lashed this area on June 9 and send their report immediately so that adequate
compensation could be granted to the affected people.
Plea
for security to human rights activist
Chandigarh, June 12
The president of the Sarv Sanjhi
Indian Party and a prominent social activist, Mr Baljeet Singh Naik,
yesterday moved the Punjab State Human Rights Commission for providing
security to a local human rights activist.
Cops, scribes organise chabeel
Kharar, June 12
Kharar police in collaboration with the Chandigarh and Punjab Union of Journalists organised a chabeel to mark the martyrdom day of Guru Arjun Dev Singh that would fall on June 16.
Judicial remand for Dal Khalsa leaders
Amritsar, June 12
Kanwar Pal Singh, alias Bittu, and Sarabjit Singh Ghuman, national general secretary and district president, Dal Khalsa, respectively, were remanded in judicial custody till June 26 here today.
Former Allahabad HC Judge found innocent
Chandigarh, June 12
Allahabad High Court’s retired Judge Justice R.K. Mahajan has clarified that the Punjab police — after looking into a complaint filed against him and his brother — found them innocent.
9 PAU scientists invited to Pakistan
Abohar, June 12
Nine scientists from Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, have been invited to International Conference of Horticulture to be held in Pakistan. Four of them are posted at the Regional Fruit Research Station of the PAU here.
Woman’s death case: in-laws booked
Batala, June 12
A married woman died under mysterious circumstances at Quadi Hatti in the heart of the town. According to Dr
J.K. Jain, SSP of Batala police district, a case has been registered against the
husband and mother-in-law of the woman.
Woman thrashed, thrown naked on street
Bathinda, June 12
A woman in her 40s hailing from Gahiri Buttar village was brutally thrashed by some villagers and thrown on a street after tearing her clothes to shreds. The police has registered a case against the
accused.
3 die in mishap
Abohar, June 12
Two residents of Anand Nagri here and the driver of their vehicle were killed in a road accident on the Abohar-Bikaner road this morning.
Cong leader’s son booked
Tarn Taran, June 12
Mr Tarlok Singh Chakwalia’s son Bhag Singh and two others were booked under Sections 382, 34 of the IPC by the Bhikhiwind police on Friday last night for looting Rs 25,000 from a resident of Bhaini Gurmukh Singh village.
1 held for smuggling poppy husk
Rajpura, June 12
The police has arrested Lal Singh, alias Lali, a Ludhiana resident, for smuggling 80 kg of poppy husk. Besides recovery of the contraband, the police has also impounded the vehicle used by the suspect.
Off-campus centres’ students in a quandary
Gurdaspur, June 12
Thousands of
students across the state are allegedly being duped by illegal off
campus centres of deemed universities “located outside the state”.
There are about 25 off-campus centres of deemed universities of other
states, running two-year diploma course in veterinary pharmacy in
Punjab.
Fall in water table worries experts
Amritsar, June 12
The indiscriminate use of ground
water to increase foodgrain production, unscientific crop pattern
clubbed with increasing population, change in lifestyle and injudicious
use of the water were major factors for the depleting water table in the
state said scholars who participated in a seminar on ‘recharging of
water wealth in Punjab’ organised at Guru Nanak Dev University, here
on Friday.
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